Productive Leaders
Nobody out there has a feedback-giving, employee-nurturing, free-praise-bestowing supervisor by Mary Kelly Do you know what your employees say about you? Are you sure? Do you want to know? I recently surveyed…
Real Estate Speaker Mary Kelly Addresses Leadership Issues at Joint NAR/CREA AE Institute; Writes Cover Story for Colorado REALTOR Magazine on Growing a Real Estate Business…
Ideally, professional speakers should be immune to the ahs, uhms, buts, ands, sos, and other poor speaking habits that can happen in front of an audience. Even seasoned professionals, such as journalists, sometimes fall into a comfort phrase that they use when searching for the next idea…
To start off the New Year, wouldn’t it be great to perform a Random Act of Kindness and then share your kindness idea with other people? Many people do really nice things for others (such as the person who paid off other people’s layaway items at a KMART, sparking others to do the same).
My Mom and Dad celebrated their 50th anniversary yesterday, and Father’s Day is tomorrow. Dad provided me with great advice over the years (and he probably didn’t think I heard all of it) but I was paying attention, at least part of the time. So Dad…
Finding people to do business with is like dating. You spend a lot of time exploring options. You get referrals, you look online, and you go to events where others are, ostensibly, looking to make a connection with you. Then you try them out. A date, as it were…
Did you know that fashion trends mirror the economy? The economy is showing signs of new life, and that optimism that is reflected in spring fashions. The stock market is coming back to life, the Consumer Price Index rose by 0.4% during each of the past two months (the largest back to back increases in two years) and…
In September, Congress passed the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010. This is by no way a comprehensive profile of this complicated act, however this does highlight a few items that you might want to be aware of. Some of the business provisions I found interesting are: 1. In 2011, landlords…
Every relationship has a life cycle. When you are really lucky, that life cycle lasts forever. However, some life cycle end before we are ready to let them go. A business life cycle is like any other relationship in terms of supporting and enhancing those involved…